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Drama. The story of Salamo Arouch, a Greek-Jewish boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II. Arrested while attempting to help his family and friends escape the Nazi juggernaut, Arouch was slated for extermination. He managed to survive by boxing for his life. He did it at the orders of his SS captors, who gambled on the outcome of Arouch's bouts. With each victory, Arouch go extra bread rations.

Director : Robert M. Young

Production Year : 1989

Duration : 120

Language : English, German

Broken Promise

On the eve of WWII, in the small Slovak town of Báncove, young Martin Friedmann-Petrasek has two main concerns: his Bar Mitzvah, and being scouted for a nationally-ranked football team. But larger fears loom for the Friedmann family and its nine children as the newly-formed Slovak state makes an alliance with Hitler. Martin's father senses the dangers ahead and struggles to keep the family together and safe, but one sibling after another is transported to Poland. Oblivious to these threats, Martin volunteers to go to to a work camp in Sered, where his friend has secured him a place on a football team. From here...

Director : Jiří Chlumský

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 129

Language : Russian, Slovak

Berlin 36

A feature film. The story of Margret Lambert (born as Gretel Bergmann), who was heading for an Olympic gold medal before she was bounced out of the squad. The Nazis wanted to ensure that Hitler would not be embarrassed by a Jewish athlete winning a gold medal for Germany. Her room-mate and eventual replacement, the film reveals, was Dora Ratjen (was a male named Horst Ratjen). “Dora”, despite his male hormones, managed to gain only fourth place. Two years later, still posing as a woman, he set a new world high jump record for women of 1.70m but was disqualified after a doctor discovered that he had strapped up...

Director : Kaspar Heidelbach

Production Year : 2009

Duration : 100

Language : German

A Secret

Based on Philippe Grimbert's fact-inspired novel, Un secret tells of a French-Jewish family torn apart during the Nazi occupation. Francois is Parisian who's informed his elderly father has gone missing. This triggers flashbacks to 1955, when he was a shy boy, intimidated by his parents: Tania, a swimmer, and Maxim, a gymnast. The boy's best friend is Louise, who runs a business close to the family's clothing shop. Francois also has an imaginary brother who's fearless and athletic. Discovering an old toy in the attic, Francois pulls a long-hidden truth out of Louise: He once had a half-brother. Prewar scenes...

Director : Claude Miller

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 105

Language : French

One Day in September

Crafted in a cinematic manner, this television documentary explores the Munich massacre of the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed by palastinians terorists of Black September organization. Director Macdonald, a British filmmaker, uses a compilation of archival footage, music and interviews with many of the central characters – including Jamal al Gashey, the only surviving terrorist, who does not reveal his face to the cameras, Ankie Spitzer, widow of Andre Spitzer, the Israeli fencing coach who died at the hands of his captors, and Gad Zabari, an...

Director : Kevin Macdonald

Production Year : 1999

Duration : 94

Language : English, German

Hasipur Ha'amiti (The True Story): The Murder of the Israeli Athletes at the Munich Olympics

תוכנית מיוחדת לציון 30 שנה לרצח הספורטאים באולימפיאדת מינכן.

Director : Yarin Kimor

Production Year : 2002

Duration : 90

Language : Hebrew

21 Hours at Munich

דרמת טלוויזיה בהפקת רשת ABC העוסקת בטבח י"א הספורטאים הישראלים באולימפיאדת מינכן 1972. הסרט אשר צולם במינכן רק 3 שנים לאחר האירועים עצמם, הוא הדרמטיזציה הראשונה על הטבח. עם וויליאם הולדן ופרנקו נרו. מועמד לשני פרסי "אמי".

Director : William A. Graham

Production Year : 1976

Duration : 101

Language : English

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This documentary tells the story the Jewish women swimmers of Hakoah Vienna sport association that during the 1930’s won a number of competitions in Austria. The gifted swimmers refused to participate in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games and which Olympic and their careers were broken up with the outbreak of World War II. The Nazis closed Hakoah Vienna in 1938, but thanks to a rescue operation the women swimmers succeeded to escape from Austria short while before the war broke through. 65 years later, the film director gets together this group of women and reunited them for a last swim in the Vienna Olympic Swimming...

Director : ירון זילברמן

Production Year : 2004

Duration : 77

Language : English, German, Hebrew

נצחון אמיתי

Director : Werner Herzog

Production Year : 2001

Duration : 133

Language : English

Munich

Based on the book Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team by George Jonas , Munich is a semi-fictionalized film about the Israeli government's secret retaliation after the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes by Black September terrorists. The film shows how a squad of assassins, led by former Mossad agent Avner tracks down and kills a list of Black September members thought to be responsible for the 11 Israeli athletes' murders. The film was shot in various places around Malta (which stands in for Tel Aviv, Beirut, Cyprus, Athens, and Rome), in Budapest,Paris and New-York....

Director : Steven Spielberg

Production Year : 2005

Duration : 157

Language : English

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